Start free. Own Cookbook with one payment. Add Plus for ongoing help from Simmer.
Collect, plan, shop, and cook without a card.
$0
no card needed
Subscribe. Cancel anytime.
Subscribe for more weekly AI usage and ongoing help from Simmer.
$2.92
/month $34.99 billed yearly
Try Plus free first: 14 days on the annual plan, 7 days on monthly. Cancel during the trial and pay nothing.
Pay once. Keep it.
Pay once for the recipe manager you keep.
$59.99
one payment, yours to keep
Own Cookbook, add Plus whenever you want it. If Plus ends, Cookbook stays.
Cookbook and Plus both include the complete recipe manager.
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| Compare features | Free$0 | Cookbook$59.99 one-time | Plus$34.99 /year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipes | |||
| Recipe storage | 25 recipes | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Assisted imports | 5/month | Counts toward AI usage | Counts toward AI usage |
| Import from a recipe or social link | Included | Included | Included |
| Snap & save recipes | Included | Included | Included |
| Import from other apps | Included | Included | Included |
| AI recipe creation | Included | Included | Included |
| Edit & remix recipes | Included | Included | Included |
| Cooking & planning | |||
| Manual meal planning | Included | Included | Included |
| Plan with Simmer | Not included | Included | Included |
| Shopping lists | Included | Included | Included |
| Cooking mode | Included | Included | Included |
| Sharing and Family | |||
| Collections & sharing | View only | View & edit | View & edit |
| Family members | Join a Family | Up to 6 cooks | Up to 6 cooks |
| Public recipe links | Included | Included | Included |
| AI & credits | |||
| Included AI usage | Weekly included usage | Same weekly included usage as Free | Far more weekly usage than Free |
| AI food photography | 5 starter images | Recipe images | Recipe images |
| Recipe polish | Not included | Included | Included |
| On-demand credit packs | Included | Included | Included |
Every plan includes weekly AI usage that resets. Purchased credits add more usage for AI features available on your plan and never expire. Buying credits does not change your plan or unlock additional features.
Importing a recipe without AI, planning meals by hand, shopping lists, and cooking mode don't count toward your AI usage.
Create or import recipes, cook step by step, plan meals by hand, build smart shopping lists, and keep up to 25 recipes in your library. You get a one-time non-expiring starter credit grant, plus weekly included usage for optional AI help.
Free also includes five successful assisted imports each month, where Simmer reads the recipe out of a supported social post or a page a plain import cannot read. After five, wait for the monthly reset or upgrade. A failed assisted import never uses one of your five.
No credit card required.
Cookbook is a one-time purchase for the complete recipe manager. It includes unlimited recipes, Family collaboration, smart meal planning with your AI usage, the same weekly included usage as Free, and a one-time non-expiring starter credit grant. It does not include Share Plus with one Family member or Plus's larger weekly included usage. Buy more credits when needed, or add Plus later without giving up Cookbook ownership.
Weekly included AI usage covers eligible AI work first. Credits extend your AI usage when you need more. They may be included as a plan starter grant or acquired separately through a promotion, referral, support grant, or purchase. Most public recipe pages import without counting toward your AI usage, and manual planning, smart shopping lists, and cooking mode don't count toward it either.
Settings shows weekly included AI usage as a percentage. It shows exact balances, sources, expiry dates, and charges only for credits acquired separately from a plan. An eligible AI action is charged once when it successfully delivers its result. An action that fails before delivery or produces no change is not charged. Applying a delivered result costs nothing extra, but a delivered result is not refunded solely because you later discard or do not use it.
A weekly term normally begins with its first successful eligible use and ends seven days later. A new paid Plus subscription instead starts a fresh weekly term immediately. A Plus free trial that continues into its paid subscription starts no fresh term at the first charge; its next term opens on the first eligible use after the trial. That activation resets only weekly included AI usage; other credit balances keep their existing expiry terms. Starter and purchased credits never expire. Other credits may have an expiry shown when they are granted.
Your saved recipes, cooking mode, manual planning, shopping lists, and collections remain available. If a weekly term has ended, you can wait until the next eligible use opens a new term. Settings shows the options available for your account, which may include using existing credits, buying a credit pack, adding Plus, or contacting the subscriber who shares Plus with you.
Cancel a monthly or annual Plus subscription anytime and keep access through the end of the billing period. Your saved recipes stay in your account.
Yes. Import recipes from Paprika, CookBook, Flavorish, Mr. Cook, or Recipe Keeper. Review the imported library, then keep organizing and cooking in Daily Simmer.
Yes. Share recipes with a public link, or invite people into a shared collection. Cookbook and Plus can create a Family for up to six cooks.
AI chatbots are useful for one-off recipe ideas. Daily Simmer also saves your recipes, imports supported recipe pages, and walks you through cooking step by step, so the whole process stays in one place.
